Vincent X. Kirsch

Vincent X. Kirsch is an artist, designer, toymaker and writer of books, film and television projects for people of all ages.

NATALIE & NAUGHTILY / Author & Illustrator / BloomsburyUSA / Fall 2008 / Selected for the 2008 Original Art Show at the Society of Illustrators

TWO LITTLE BOYS FROM TOOLITTLE TOYS / Author & Illustrator / BloomsburyUSA / Summer 2010 / Selected for the 2010 Original Art Show at the Society of Illustrators

FORSYTHIA & ME / Author & Illustrator / Farrar Straus Giroux / Winter 2011

THE CHANDELIERS / Author & Illustrator / Farrar Straus Giroux / August 2012

NOAH WEBSTER & HIS WORDS / Illustrator / Houghton Mifflin / October 2012 / Golden Kite Award 2012: Best Non-Fiction Picture Book / Selected for the 2013 Original Art Show at the Society of Illustrators/Included in the traveling Original Art exhibition

FREDDIE & GINGERSNAP / Author & Illustrator / DisneyHyperion / January 2014

FREDDIE & GINGERSNAP FIND A CLOUD TO KEEP / Author & Illustrator / DisneyHyperion / January 2015

GINGERBREAD FOR LIBERTY! / Illustrator / Houghton Mifflin / January 2015

THE HOLE STORY OF THE DOUGHNUT / Illustrator / Houghton Mifflin / Spring 2016

CAN YOU FIND PUP? / Author & Illustrator / Holiday House / Spring 2018

HOW I LEARNED TO FALL OUT OF TREES / TBA / Spring 2019

Mr. Kirsch got his start in advertising agencies specializing in Broadway and film accounts. He had been involved in things theatrical since his youth. He had minored in scenic design and filmmaking at Syracuse University. His scenic design work lead him the stages of the Williamstown Theatre Festival where he became an artist-in-residence under the nurturing gaze of Nikos Psacharapoulos. He designed sets and posters for seven summer seasons of the productions there.

At the same time he was designing and illustrating book jackets for such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Luigi Barzini and F. Scott Fitzgerald. An accidental spilling of India ink on scratchboard resulted in a completely unusual, original black and white illustration style. The black and white, as well as color work, has continued to appear regularly on the pages of The New York Times Book Review & Op-Ed pages, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and a wide array of magazines.

Coincidentally, the work on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times landed Mr. Kirsch a three-year job designing and directing the windows of Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue. His work with mannequins and small window spaces lead to the creation of three-dimensional characters and revived a fascination with puppetry and Victorian toy theaters.

He has worked and experimented on these projects steadily since leaving Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-nineties. For three years, Mr. Kirsch was Visual Merchandising Director for Dean & Deluca, overseeing the merchandising and branding for all the stores in North America.

Mr. Kirsch currently lives in Beverly Hills, California.